Internships and Work-Study Opportunities

Internships and/or Independent Studies: Unpaid, Course Credit

Students are strongly encouraged to find ways to create projects in support of their degree program that will provide unique leadership opportunities. Talk to your course advisor to structure an independent study or internship in an area of interest to you. This will provide you (the student) with experience and the administration with a valuable research service. Make sure you find a faculty or staff advisor (or both!) who has practical professional experience in your areas of interest, so you get the most out of your experience as possible. This will sometimes be the Sustainability Coordinator herself, but more often she will connect you with appropriate faculty and staff that might be able to assist.

In general, students who need experiential opportunities to fulfill some of their course credit will be given priority.

Internships: Paid

Paid internships are more likely to surface when professionals within the administration, or faculty with funding for research, have specific short-term research needs that must be addressed within a short period of time (usually a semester, but sometimes longer). These opportunities will be posted on this website when they become available.

Work-Study: Paid

Work-study opportunities are available annually with the Sustainability Office. Check with the Coordinator if you think you're interested in using your financial aid this way. Please be aware that these work-study positions are more rigorous than a "typical" work-study position, so although you will be paid more per hour, you will be expected to actively participate in assisting the Office with research and administrative duties where required.

2008 Interns

• Nick Cook, Civil Engineering Graduate Program
  
  Nick is working with the Sustainability Office this semester on our greenhouse gas inventory. He is completing his final semester of classes in his program. He hopes to focus on environmental engineering as he enters the workforce, and believes this internship will provide him some experience in the field.
• Robert Johnson, Environmental Science and Policy Graduate Program
  
  Rob is working with the Sustainability Office this semester on our greenhouse gas inventory, as well as advising the Office on strategic direction. Rob is interested in corporate sustainability issues, how to make sustainability principles widely understood and accessible, and how to modernize K-12 curricula to incorporate sustainability principles.
• Asim Ali Mahar, Civil Engineering Undergraduate Program
  
  Asim is working with the Sustainability Office this semester on our greenhouse gas inventory. Ali is finishing his last semester as an undergraduate engineering student, and has a keen interest in focusing his career on environmental aspects of civil engineering.